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Another Starbucks Store Votes To Unionize
The store in Arizona joins two in New York as the only corporate Starbucks stores with a union.
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Workers United – SEIU strongly condemns the murder of Shahidul Islam, an organizer who was killed for standing up for the rights of garment workers in Bangladesh.
Workers United – SEIU joins the global labor movement in strongly condemning the murder of Shahidul Islam, an organizer who was killed for standing up for the rights of garment workers in Bangladesh. Shahidul was a senior organizer with the Bangladesh Garments and Industrial Workers Federation (BGIWF) and President of BGIWF’s Gazipur district committee. Shahidul was beaten to death in retaliation for supporting workers at the Prince Jacquard Sweater Ltd. factory, where BGIWF had been organizing for the last few months. Workers United – SEIU expresses its deepest sympathies to the family of Shahidul Islam and to our sisters and brothers at BGIWF. We stand in solidarity with these courageous leaders fighting for respect and dignity at work.
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Organizing
The Unavoidable Fight to Unionize Starbucks in New York
On December 9, Starbucks workers at two stores in Buffalo took an enormous step toward organizing the coffee chain’s labor force when they voted to form a union with Workers United.
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Starbucks Strategy for Responding to Union Elections Is Dealt a Setback
The National Labor Relations Board ruled that single Starbucks stores, not multiple locations in an area, were the proper jurisdictions for unionization votes.
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Kutztown University food-services workers are trying to set the table for unionization
Pennsylvania Joint Board of Workers United, which wants to represent approximately 85 workers, has filed a federal unfair labor practice charge against food service contracting giant Aramark for thwarting at least one employee’s attempts to organize workers.
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Starbucks Tries To Slow Union Elections But Misses Legal Deadline By 8 Minutes
The coffee chain's legal team said Microsoft Outlook crashed as it was emailing the files. A labor board official didn't have much sympathy.
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Starbucks Is Retaliating Against Union Leaders, Fired Worker Cassie Fleischer Says
Starbucks worker who was fired from her job at the coffee chain's first unionized store says she believes the company is retaliating against her and others for leading unionizing efforts.
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